Aymeric Laporte fired his team to victory twice last Tuesday. At the Metalist Stadium he headed in Manchester City's second goal against Shakhtar Donetsk, setting them well on their way to top spot in their Champions League group.
And earlier that afternoon, in his room at a five-star Kharkiv golf resort, he emerged victorious from a frantic round of Fortnite. The wildly popular battle royale game has penetrated the City dressing room, to the extent that thousands of gamers across the world will have unwittingly found themselves trying to out-gun a battle-hardened trio of City first-teamers in the past few months; Nicolas Otamendi and Brahim Diaz regularly fill up Laporte's three-man squads.